DC Politics is not like football or baseball, where you run a play and pause to figure out what to do next. No, it’s like basketball, always moving, where if you stand still, you lose.

Right now, Team Obama is doing a lot of standing around.

The Washington Post is apparently in the business of reprinting ignorant challenges without any fact-check or context.

Evan Bayh is once again going to act as Big Oil’s best friend in the Senate, refusing to commit to passing renewable energy standards.

As Yglesias notes, even Rich Boucher — who represents a coal-heavy Appalachian district that went 59% for McCain — is on board with Waxman’s compromises on the American Clean Energy and Security Act.

One of the biggest cheerleaders for a President that illegally spied on Americans, locked people away without charges, set a record for presidential signing statements and you know, tortured people — actually has the balls to write this.

Rasmussen operates as a legitimate polling organization, but has, in essence conducted and published a push poll.

Since I lack the I Loathe MoDo iBlogg app, I don’t really feel like joining the pile-on that will launch a thousand “This Is Why the New York Times Is Dying!!!” blog posts by Monday morning.

Bob Graham says OCA, not CTC, conducted his one “torture” briefing. He also said the location of the brieing–in the Hart Senate Office Building and not the White House–shows that the briefing was not highly classified.

Atrios:

Ultimately the anti-Google and anti-blogger stuff isn’t about making bloggers stop linking or Google stop indexing, it’s a fantasy that somehow newspapers have some right to make money off of what Google and bloggers do.

Substantively yes that is what they’re saying, but it isn’t about “rights.” As Markos notes, all these organizations have to do is add “disallow” tags and the Google spiders won’t index their sites, but that’s not what they want.

A few weeks ago, Liz “BabyDick” Cheney refused to deny that her Daddy was the “prime mover” on torture. Yesterday, she refused to deny that he had requested waterboarding be used with an Iraqi to drum up al Qaeda-Iraq ties.

• Obama at Notre Dame. 
• Upping the ante.
• Pretty much.
• But…but…all they really need is a tax cut. 
• A housing boom?
• Oopsie!
• They just won’t stop.